A nice variety of books and magazines. Including a special issue of Thrasher, my copy of The Dolphin, my 4th copy of Tristram Shandy, and some powerful photo books.
I used to have that one. I gave it to someone years ago. I'm pretty attached to the copy I read, which is the black-spine Penguin with the jazzy, modernist art reproduction on the cover. I love this book so much. There is no other book like it.
S of S , Another Day of Life (about the Angolan civil war), and The Emperor (the overthrow of Halie Selassie) are quirky and revealing. John O'Hara was big up to the 1960s. He wrote about unhappy rich people. Then Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, and Tom Wolfe happened. His stories are supposed to be good.
Noted! I wanna read his stories. Give them a try. Thank you for these specific recs. The figure of H Selassie has come up with some frequency in my life and I am interested to know more
I also loved Eightball. Growing up, I was less interested in superhero comics and far more interested in books like Eightball and Minimum Wage and the books of Peter Bagge. Have you ever read "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" by Roz Chast? That's one of my favorite graphic novels. Tristram Shandy is hilarious. What a weird, weird book. A good friend of mine keeps recommending "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to me. She's super into "Dead Stuff" as she likes to say, and knows I really like memoirs. I'll take her up on it at some point. "A Mercy" is very good Morrison novel. I did not know we are outliers in that regard. I know that Fran Leibowitz really likes it as well. I think Song of Solomon and Sula are tied for me, but it seems we basically rank the late great Morrison in the same order.
That’s so exciting about our similar late Morrison ranking! Also: the Roz Chast book is something I’ll probably check out from MPL this month and read. Love checking out graphic novels from library. Love this substantive comment. You’ve made the video better by adding this lore
